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Hartford Stage is seeking Connecticut high school students with a talent for writing, acting, dancing, music, poetry or art to create and perform an original theatre piece through Project: Transform. The theme of this year's program focuses on safe...

As any theater obsessive knows, it's hard not to get swept up in Tony fever so in advance of Tuesday morning's announcement of this year's nominees, here's a few fearless predictions. (It's not always a given if there are four or five nominees in...

After receiving a Donkey Kong-style pounding from critics, "Pixels," the '80s video-game themed comedy starring Adam Sandler, was edged out at the box office on its opening weekend, failing to take the No. 1 spot from...

AMY. 4 stars. An extraordinary documentary about Amy Winehouse, the British singer who died in 2011, at age 27, a victim of too much drink, too many drugs and too much fame. Soul-stirring, heartbreaking, the film uses a trove of archival film, much of...

"I have been alone, all my life," says 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen), and you hear every one of his years in that voice. "Mr. Holmes," directed by Bill Condon and based on a novel by Mitch Cullin, isn't really a mystery,...

He never wore that "signature" deerstalker hat, nor smoked a pipe. Those were just an illustrator's embellishments in the wildly popular, penny-dreadful accounts of his adventures penned by his late pal Dr. Watson resulting in the cult fame...

In "Mr. Holmes," Ian McKellen and director Bill Condon reunite for another story about an aging man confronting his mortality. Their first collaboration, 1998's Oscar-winning "Gods and Monsters," centered on filmmaker James Whale, best...

People expect delightful things from Ian McKellen, the English stage and screen great. He saw his first payday at age 3, stepped onto his first stage at 6 and, since his professional debut in 1961 at age 22, has never been out of work. One of his...

MOVIES Opening Friday "Trainwreck" (R): After becoming a star through her popular TV skit show, Amy Schumer ventures into film with this comedy (directed by Knocked Up's Judd Apatow) about a woman afraid of commitment who is trying to...

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart just took their bromance to the next level: smooching on a red carpet.
The British stars have been close pals for decades, and Stewart and his wife, Sunny Ozell, attended the U.K. premiere of McKellen's...

Every successful superhero requires an appropriately fiendish villain to bring out the best in him and serve as a credible threat to humanity. In the case of "Avengers: Age of Ultron," the all-star squad's nemesis comes in the form of Ultron,...

Mince pies, Christmas crackers, all those "Keep Calm and Jingle On" T-shirts — and now television.
This year, Americans can celebrate a very British Christmas without leaving their homes, much less braving Heathrow at the holidays.
In the...

About midway into the latest X-Men flick, Bryan Singer’s generous, delightfully convoluted “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” there is a prison break so exuberant and uncharacteristic of superhero movies that you sit up a bit in your seat. You feel the...

NEW YORK — Recent Broadway seasons have yielded musical juggernauts: "The Book of Mormon," "The Producers" and "Spring Awakening," for example, each scooped up fistfuls of Tony nominations before going on to win best musical....

Hugh Jackman's clawed hero Wolverine has the unenviable task of traveling back in time to try to save the world in Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past," and the final trailer finds him following in the grand movie tradition of...

Not many superheroes can wallop bad guys and belt out a tune with equal aplomb, but Fox's "X-Men" franchise boasts just such a guy in Hugh Jackman, a.k.a. Wolverine.
The star of last summer's "The Wolverine" demonstrated his singing...

Patrick Stewart is great to follow on Twitter, even more so lately as he posts daily pics of himself and pal Ian McKellen while they count down the remaining days of their "Two Shows in Rep" run on Broadway.
Stewart and McKellen playing...

Much that was old was new again in 2013, which turned out to be a very good year for the classics.
It wasn't a bad year for new work either, even if too many of today's most provocative playwrights are getting short shrift from this town's nonprofit...